Side note: from now on when I get to an annoyingly-written headline (this article’s is “The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think”), I am going to re-write it here. Anyway, beautiful article. (via)

<blockquote> <p>For too long, we have talked exclusively about individual recovery from addiction. We need now to talk about social recovery — how we all recover, together, from the sickness of isolation that is sinking on us like a thick fog.</p> </blockquote>

Adam Vaughan’s quest for family residences in the core isn’t going so well.

“I don’t think we’re achieving three-bedroom units. I think we’re achieving units where people are crammed in just because a design that should be a two-bedroom unit is being made into a three-bedroom unit.”

I like the idea of more mid-rise buildings along the avenues; a lot of our arterials on the fringes of the core seem underused. But it seems hard to get developers to build them.